73: Making an elixir, it's so hot it's like a fire stick!

The True Essence Fire was extremely fierce.

Soon, it burned the rune alchemy furnace red-hot, and a wave of medicinal fragrance emanated from the Pill Furnace.

The first stage of Alchemy — Refining Essence!

At this point, the True Essence Fire was needed to further extract the essence of the Spiritual Plants, leaving only the truly essential parts.

This stage did not require too much True Essence Fire to complete.

The second stage of Alchemy — Condensing Pills!

This was the most complex and True Essence-consuming step.

The True Essence Fire poured into the rune alchemy furnace, transforming back into True Essence within the Pill Furnace.

This True Essence fused with the Spiritual Plant essence, then continuously condensed within the rune alchemy furnace, gradually transforming into a semi-solid, special state.

The third stage of Alchemy — Annealing!

The semi-solid Medicinal Pill, having been refined in the True Essence Fire, contained a large amount of the True Essence Fire's power. If consumed directly in this state, the True Essence Fire would enter the Meridians and ignite all the True Essence within the body, causing extremely terrifying damage.

Therefore, according to the method in the Dao Transformation Elixir Art, in the final step of refining the Medicinal Pill, a process of using fire to anneal fire was required.

The True Essence Fire was poured in from the top of the Pill Furnace but did not directly touch the Medicinal Pill.

The True Essence Fire formed a negative True Essence zone around the Medicinal Pill, gradually drawing out the True Essence Fire contained within the Medicinal Pill.

This process would cause the semi-solid Medicinal Pill to completely solidify.

After three days and three nights.

Su Yang finally finished refining the first batch of Medicinal Pills.

He opened the lid.

Instantly, colorful light overflowed, and a medicinal fragrance assailed his nostrils.

Two purple gold pills, the size of fingernails, floated out of the Pill Furnace and landed in Su Yang's hand.

The Medicinal Pills were still warm.

But all the True Essence Fire within them had receded.

What remained was the extremely pure medicinal essence of the Spiritual Plant immortal medicine and vast True Essence.

"I didn't expect to only refine two."

Su Yang was indeed a little disappointed, having consumed dozens of Spiritual Plant immortal medicines in one go to refine just these two.

However, Su Yang was also very excited by the power contained within these two Medicinal Pills.

"The hunyuan true spirit pill that the Sect Master gave me during the trip to Burial Immortal Valley was already very powerful."

"But this most common purple gold pill in the Dao Transformation Elixir Art clearly has a stronger effect than the hunyuan true spirit pill."

Su Yang still vividly remembered the effect of using the hunyuan true spirit pill during the beast tide.

Now, the purple gold pill he refined according to the Dao Transformation Elixir Art had an even better effect.

The True Essence contained in each purple gold pill was enough to instantly replenish all the consumption of him, an Early Golden Core Stage Cultivator, and even have some left over.

This undoubtedly greatly enhanced his safety.

But were two enough?

Su Yang was clearly not that kind of person.

Since there were still many Spiritual Plant immortal medicines, he would continue to refine them.

Su Yang and the rune puppet released their Fusion, exiting his sea of consciousness.

He opened his eyes.

Wen Yunyao leaned softly against him. She had been Cultivating, but the moment Su Yang finished Alchemy, she felt a strange heat that instantly triggered her resonance, making her unable to Cultivate.

Seeing Su Yang open his eyes, Wen Yunyao asked weakly, "What's wrong with you? Your body has been so hot these past few days, as if there's fire burning inside!"

She felt Su Yang's temperature over those three days and three nights most clearly.

He was as hot as a fire poker!

So much so that her Cultivation during those three days and three nights had been repeatedly interrupted by this heat, triggering sudden resonances.

"I was doing Alchemy."

Su Yang didn't explain much. Looking at the blush on her face, he smiled and pinched her cheek, "Are you tired?"

"I'm numb..."

Wen Yunyao said softly, her face red.

Su Yang said, "Then you rest for a few days, and let Gu Yue take over."

"Mm... I really need to rest for a few days..."

Wen Yunyao wasn't jealous at all at this moment.

With such intense sessions lasting days and nights, if she were the only woman accompanying him in Cultivation, she simply couldn't handle it.

Wen Yunyao slowly got up. As the high temperature receded, she felt a little lighter, yet also a bit disappointed as if something was missing.

"Gu Yue, you should be well-rested these past few days, right? It's your turn."

Su Yang said to Gu Yue while eating Spiritual Plants.

"Got it~~ I'm coming~~~"

Gu Yue had been sleeping these past few days and was incredibly well-rested.

As soon as she heard Su Yang call her, she eagerly sat down on him.

"Ah—so hot—"

The residual heat of the fire poker hadn't faded. Gu Yue felt a burning sensation as soon as she sat down.

She felt like she was about to boil.

"Why are you in such a hurry? I haven't finished these Spiritual Plants yet."

Su Yang didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"I thought Master would need me to connect right away~~~"

Gu Yue stuck out her tongue seductively.

"Then just consider it getting used to it in advance."

Su Yang smiled and continued to eat Spiritual Plants.

Gu Yue looked at him with a strange expression, "This is my first time seeing Alchemy done like this. Master, where are the Medicinal Pills you refined?"

"Inside my body."

"Alchemy inside the body?"

"Yes!"

"The method from that Dao Transformation Elixir Art?"

Su Yang nodded.

He continued to eat the Spiritual Plant immortal medicine in large mouthfuls.

To refine more purple gold pills at once, Su Yang simply ate while mobilizing True Essence to extract the essence of the Spiritual Plant immortal medicine.

This time, Su Yang consumed over a hundred Spiritual Plant immortal medicines in one go.

Only then did he close his eyes and sink back into his sea of consciousness, continuing to refine purple gold pills with the True Essence Fire.

What he needed most now was Medicinal Pills that could replenish his True Essence when necessary, and among the Dao Transformation Elixir Art, the only one he could currently refine that met his needs was the purple gold pill.

Naturally, he would refine as many as he could.

To be prepared for contingencies.

More Spiritual Plants did not require more time to refine.

It also took three days and three nights to complete the refining of five purple gold pills.

Su Yang planned to refine all the Spiritual Plants he had exchanged for into Medicinal Pills and store them in his sea of consciousness, so he could Cultivate and improve his cultivation with greater peace of mind.

So, he sent Gu Yue to rest and Junior Sister Yun Yao once again sat on the fire poker.

To ensure that Spiritual Qi continuously entered his body.

Only sufficient Spiritual Qi could guarantee a continuous supply of True Essence.

Only with ample True Essence could the True Essence Fire continuously perform Alchemy.

And while Su Yang was doing Alchemy, neither Gu Yue nor Junior Sister Yun Yao were idle. They Cultivated as they should, improving their own cultivation, and at the same time, indirectly improving Su Yang's cultivation in an auxiliary form, helping him refine Medicinal Pills better.

During this period, Lin Bingqing had not stepped into the pavilion for half a step.

She didn't even dare to look at the scene inside the pavilion.

When Grand Elder Xuan Qing brought her over, he had clearly told her that accompanying Su Yang in Cultivation meant giving him everything she had. At that time, she only thought this meant she would become Su Yang's woman.

She never expected the reality was not what she imagined.

Instead, it meant giving herself to Su Yang, accompanying him in Cultivation in this manner.

This was something she had never anticipated.

She didn't understand how the Three Grand Elders could accept Su Yang's almost demonic Cultivator-like method, even actively sending her and Wen Yunyao to him to help him Cultivate.

However... these past few days, Lin Bingqing saw very clearly that Wen Yunyao and Gu Yue, who accompanied Su Yang in Cultivation in this way, absorbed Spiritual Qi extremely quickly, far exceeding the speed of normal Cultivation.

Moreover, the speed at which Spiritual Qi transformed into True Essence was also extremely rapid.

This made their cultivation improvement speed very noticeable; they could feel their cultivation growing every day.

This was simply incredible.

If they continued at this Cultivation pace, Wen Yunyao, who was accompanying Su Yang in Cultivation, would probably surpass her in strength within a year.

"No wonder Wen Yunyao was so eager to come and accompany Su Yang in Cultivation."

"So, accompanying him in Cultivation has such immense benefits."

Lin Bingqing muttered to herself, while also telling herself: "But I will absolutely not agree to Cultivate with him for such a thing! I will give everything I have to Senior Brother Xiang, not this demonic Cultivator!"

Lin Bingqing snorted, her attitude unwavering...